Your firm's own methods, not its clients' files
The records AI labs care about reveal how strong legal practice is organized. Most of it sits outside any one client file:
- Templates and precedent banks, and the reasoning behind clause choices
- Research memos, checklists and training written for the firm's own lawyers
- Intake, staffing and matter workflow records from your practice management system
- Billing narratives stripped of every name and identifier
Names and matters become placeholders
In anything that remains in scope, placeholders replace clients, the parties on the other side, your lawyers and your staff. The same applies to every matter number and identifier. Before anything is shared, you look over a sample and sign off, seeing exactly the material a buyer would get.
Your precedents stay with the firm
Your original documents stay in your systems, and a password is never requested. Buyers license only the copy you approved, and use it for building and evaluating AI models. You can withhold any template set, practice group or period that you consider central to the firm.
Removing privileged material
Confidential and privileged material is taken out of the copy. Whether anything connected to a client belongs in scope at all is for your firm and its counsel to decide, and we do not give legal advice about it. You can keep client matters out in full. Many firms stick to internal know-how from start to finish.
If you are unsure about a folder or a practice group, the simple answer is to leave it out.
How a firm can sensibly begin
Get the estimate first, and on the first short call ask whatever your lawyers will need answered. Many firms bring a list: which systems are being discussed, how placeholders are applied, and how the sample review works. Your counsel can review the prepared sample before anything goes out, and the firm can stop at any point before it approves. The estimate never needs client names or files, and your practice area never moves the range.
The first questions firms raise
Will the firm pay anything?
No. It is free to you throughout.
Will the first call stay confidential?
Yes. The work starts under an NDA, and nothing goes out until you approve it.
Can law firms join in?
That is a question for your counsel, not for us. We can walk you through each step, while your counsel judges what, if anything, suits the firm's obligations.
See where your firm starts.
It depends on the size of the firm and its age. The number is the same for every practice area.
How many employees does your company have?
Indicative estimate based on your answers. Not an offer or guarantee.